Daily Telegraph 7 December 2012
Article page 28 by Fraser Nelson.
'Osborne often behaves as if he is playing a game of chess with Ed Balls rather than trying to save a country.'
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George is, of course a chessplayer. If only most politicians just played chess rather than meddling.

I suggest other people add to this string as, and when, they observe a mention.

While we are on the subject of cricket/chess analogies - I heard an amusing arguement in favour of adjournments saying that they were "like a cricket test match, where the game is played without pressure to the best of the players abilities" but I could resist pointing out that, with the ability to access computers, it is more like a test match where the players eat steroids for tea and come back 10 times stronger and faster then they were when they started the game.

Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.

London. A chessboard that may have been carried by Charles 1 to the scaffold has been sold for Â£500,000. The king, a chess enthusiast, is believed to have been engrossed in a game on 30 January 1649, when a messenger arrived to tell him that he was to be executed. He took two precious possessions with him to the scaffold, a Bible and an amber games board - thought to the the one sold at Sotheby's to a private collector.
The board is illustrated in the story and can also be used to play backgammon and nine men's morris.

Jon Stewart made some chess-related comments on the January 10 edition of The Daily Show. Opening with a gag about his guest, a bishop, only being able to move diagonally, he then made various comparisons to chess in a piece about the Senate's debate on the 'fiscal cliff'. At one point he described a part of the discussion as a 'classic Sokolsky Opening' - definitely a step up from the usual 'stalemate' or 'checkmate' reference.

Stewart Reuben wrote:y.'
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George is, of course a chessplayer. If only most politicians just played chess rather than meddling.